[washingtonismoney]

I'm certainly no MLS apologist, as I tended to agree with Klinsmann that our better players should be playing in Europe, and I'm disappointed that Morris chose Seattle over Werder Bremen.  I sure hope that Morris will take the opportunity to move to a top European league if the opportunity presents itself again.  But not all European leagues are created equally, and the MLS has gotten better.

Meh, Klinsmann's rhetoric in this area was... more rhetoric than action. He took tons of MLS guys, even when he had European options. I don't know whether that affected player behavior (when choosing between European-based teams versus MLS ones), but it's plausible it did. The main point to keep in mind here is that Klinsmann liked to talk about things, and got an inordinate amount of credit for saying things people already believed anyway. Then he didn't follow through.

[washingtonismoney]

I'm certainly no MLS apologist, as I tended to agree with Klinsmann that our better players should be playing in Europe, and I'm disappointed that Morris chose Seattle over Werder Bremen.  I sure hope that Morris will take the opportunity to move to a top European league if the opportunity presents itself again.  But not all European leagues are created equally, and the MLS has gotten better.

Meh, Klinsmann's rhetoric in this area was... more rhetoric than action. He took tons of MLS guys, even when he had European options. I don't know whether that affected player behavior (when choosing between European-based teams versus MLS ones), but it's plausible it did. The main point to keep in mind here is that Klinsmann liked to talk about things, and got an inordinate amount of credit for saying things people already believed anyway. Then he didn't follow through.